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52: the persecution of wilhelm reich
there are 11 people interested i am interested in this class

we could

talk about:
wilhelm reich,
his theory of orgone energy and the orgasm,
his work’s conribution to the history of american self-help & new age “movements”,
his persecution by the U.S. FDA,
the subsequent burning of his books by the American gvmt,
and his untimely death while incarcerated

build:
an orgone accumulator
a cloudbuster

and watch:
dusan makavejev’s ‘wr: the mystery of the organism’
&
episode 3 of ‘the century of the self’
(each of which have bits on reich)

perhaps a show-and-tell format?

[ offer to teach this ]


2 Comments

  1. was57

    I’d be interested to see the video “WR: the mystery of the organism.” Maybe that could be the whole class. I’ve read Listen Little Man, The Function of the Orgasm, and some of his other writings, also the Biography “Fury on Earth” by Sharaf. I’ve also read the play “Wilhelm Reich in Hell” by Robert Anton Wilson.

    Reich does seem a bit of am control freak, but he has some facinating ideas.

    I like the story I heard, where someone asked him what they could do to make the world a better place and he replied, “All you can do to make the world a better place is learn to breath properly yourself.”

  2. aoverton

    hi
    if you want to see WR with a bunch of folks, keep your eyes peeled for a possible screening at Sea and Space Resort this July: http://seaandspace.org/future.html

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